Isn't this rampant on US as well though? E.G. shallow perks as ping-pong table, snacks, videogame, beers in the office but totally disfunctional management and

Isn't this rampant on US as well though? E.G. shallow perks as ping-pong table, snacks, videogame, beers in the office but totally disfunctional management and work-life balance. Using the latest shiny tech just because it makes it easier to target these groups and replace the burned out ones. I see this happening a lot on finance and consulting jobs outside of tech too: - Offer a reasonable salary for interns/trainees (not reasonable relative to the responsibilities though) - Promise a huge corporate salary with benefits for the ones that are able to remain more than x years - Burn all of them out, working overtime, abusing from young inexperienced people - Promote a couple from dozens of people to serve as an example of successful cases - Fire or continue abusing the rest - Rinse and repeat In the end you acquired a couple of indoctrinated corporate zombies as well as years of cheap hours from the other ones. Just take a look at every year's trainee program and the mind washing process from banks and corporate consultancies. Do the candidates really believe that the company needs so many trainees each year? The turnover is a feature, not a bug... Edit: Just noticed my point is not related to your argument, and I actually agree with you.